First atlas of brain organization shows development over a lifetime - from birth to 100 years! The tour-de-force paper is here www.nature.com/articles/s41... 🧪 @nature.com www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Statistics of natural scenes shape contextual modulation in the visual cortex www.cell.com/neuron/fullt... - would be really interesting to do this right after eye opening!

A cortical circuit for orchestrating oromanual food manipulation www.cell.com/neuron/abstr... - Om! Nom! Nom! Nom! (the neuroscience of...) 🍪

"Our fossil fuel economy is a house of cards and Trump's war in Iran is about to topple it. The need for a clean energy transition has never been clearer" | My new commentary for @livescience.com: www.livescience.com/planet-earth...

Happy #FluorescenceFriday! This is a confocal 🔬 series of a developing 🐭 spinal cord showing nuclei, actin, and cellular membrane stains colored in 🌈 Microscopy by postdoc @christinaadaly.bsky.social 👩‍🔬 🧪

Happy! 🙂🙂🙂🙂🙂 #Pareidolia #Pareidolie #Iseefaces #FacesInThings #FacesInPlaces #ThingsWithFaces #Leek

You really can't exaggerate how squarely contrary this rhetoric is to the basic foundational precepts of this country. These people *hate* the actually existing United States.

New episode!! 🎙️🎉 A conversation w/ @glupyan.bsky.social & @mcxfrank.bsky.social. Questions swirl about what AI will mean for work, education, and society. But cognitive scientists can't help but also wonder: What will AI mean for our understanding of the mind? Listen: disi.org/what-can-ai-...

Our movement is growing. Our power is collective. Our resistance is nonviolent. March 28 is our next nationwide mobilization against authoritarianism. We have the power and we're claiming it TOGETHER. NO THRONES. NO CROWNS. #NOKINGS2026 🔗 www.mobilize.us?tag_ids=2958...

David's comment is a reasonable summary of the matter, and captures the situation well: there is too much "clever analysis" being brought to bear on a situation that is all too obviously due to spectacular stupidity and sociopathy. Why the reluctance to admit this?

A great entry into the proposals available for physiologically plausible gradient descent! I think the way they use dendrite targeting inhibition in this model is particularly elegant. Time to start testing these ideas folks!!! #neuroscience 🧪 #NeuroAI

To me this is all very exciting. We as a field are coming up with a new conception of how the sensory cortex works, grounded in recurrent network function. It’s not just edge detection and single cell RFs. 🧪🧠🤖 #neuroscience

“Facilitatory surrounds resembled naturalistic continuations of the optimal center stimulus” Excellent: this physiology data supports our recent finding using patterned stimulation—together suggesting that visual cortex neurons go beyond the classical RF and reflect the structure of natural vision.

"Chromatin organization in Asgard archaea: Histones, SMC complexes, and the archaeal roots of eukaryotic chromatin" by Remus Dame & colleagues (@damelab.bsky.social) "Understanding chromatin organization in Asgard archaea is key to understanding how eukaryotic chromatin evolved." shorturl.at/6bLvx

1800 year old Roman sculpture, showing a baby holding a puppy and the mother dog gently touching the baby asking for her baby back.

Congrats to all those journal editors & peer reviewers who legitimised Lynn’s “national IQ” database by letting it into their journals. Truly, it’s a victory for academic freedom to publish papers which claim that children living in a refugee camp constitute a nationally representative sample 👏👏

Tomorrow 🚨March 28 will be historic: nearly 2,000 No Kings Day events are planned across all 50 states and 10 countries. This isn’t just a protest—it’s a nationwide and global movement demanding change. The largest coordinated demonstration in American history is coming. #NoKingsDay #HistoricProtest

We are SO close to a Weekend At Bernie's scenario

Very cool work (though the headline makes it sound like the little guy is still alive...)

If you’re wondering how we ended up with MAHA kooks running NIH, FDA, CMS, and CDC, this piece confirms it: Trump let RFK Jr choose these kooks

A gigantic record-breaking heat dome is baking the US and war is skyrocketing fuel prices and the cost of living. If only scientists and climate activists had warned us…. Oh wait they did.

I submitted the second draft of my new book to the publisher today! It’s really coming together! The book is called “How to Build a Universe”; it’s about what the universe is made of (particles? fields? something weirder?) & how we physicists build our own theoretical universes to figure it all out

Trump is cutting off all arms shipments to Ukraine from the US. Because of his war. Putin has accelerated his bombing campaign. Hes going for the War Criminal invitational award. Now Trump says give up the Donbas and we will assure security for Ukraine. Trump is a traitor. Don’t believe him!

Our latest publication grapples with how the brain could implement gradient descent by sending learning targets top-down, gating plasticity with dendritic inhibition, and updating synaptic weights with biologically observed learning rules like BTSP. www.cell.com/cell-reports...

Ireland is sitting between two larger counties that are both embracing fascism (at different speeds, in ways both different and similar) and we need to be very careful going forward to forge our own path

How incredible: “The full delivery took about 30 minutes. For hours afterward, pairs of whales held the baby above the water until it was able to swim… What struck the researchers was how many mother, sister and daughter whales united to support the new calf, even ones that weren’t related.”

My quote of the day The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance - it is the illusion of knowledge. Daniel J. Boorstin

No, the "wokes" have not taken over academia. Learn about the real threats to #Science in my interview with Dr. Michael Mann (@michaelemann.bsky.social), about his book with Dr. Peter Hotez (@peterhotezmdphd.bsky.social), Science Under Siege. Full interview: youtu.be/mkoHF3v8EIk

Kaoru Yamada - Spring Radiance Kaoru Yamada is a Japanese artist who specialises in digital art. She reflects brief moments from sunlight reflecting of a familiar scene to the fleetingly essence of a passing season. Her work brings a sense of peace and calm to our crowded worlds. #artzeal

Today in Nature Neuroscience we have published our exploration of neocortical development leveraging 100's of public datasets. You can interrogate the entire compendium of data at nemoanalytics.org/landing/neoc... and read the paper at www.nature.com/articles/s41....

My god. Have you ever seen close-ups of sea star skin? 🧪🌊🌿

Oxytocin is much than a "social" hormone. I think it's more accurate to describe it as an allostatic hormone that helps maintain physiological stability. Its social effects are just a by-product of these regulatory efforts doi.org/10.1016/j.ti...

Happy to report that our survey study on the diversity with which people seem to experience their mental imagery is now published in RSOS :) doi.org/10.1098/rsos... I posted a longer thread summarising the findings some months ago when we first put out the preprint: bsky.app/profile/samp...

This is great. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/26/c... (free link) "Notably, half of the whales attending were not related to the mother." "The calf was rarely left untouched, and it was usually being touched by at least two whales simultaneously."

Might be the greatest opening paragraph of anything ever.

Here's an irony of contemporary society: Most of us who work and socialize in adult spaces get very little time with babies and young children, while parents are isolated and overwhelmed. In my Substack this week, I advocate for more babies in public spaces and more baby time for all!

I don't think people fully appreciate how apocalyptic things are for US science. I haven't had any new funding since 2024, but I'm still ok since typical grants are for three years. This means next year I will be completely out of funding and will have to fire everyone in the lab. It's not great.

I just saw this.

Matt-GPT

Wikipedia now has higher standards than all universities

My conversation about #ScienceUnderSiege with @thedissenteryt.bsky.social podcast (my co-author @peterhotezmdphd.bsky.social to follow!): open.spotify.com/episode/0cl4...

FELLOW AUTHORS: the deadline to file a claim in the Anthropic settlement for stealing all our work is MONDAY. The settlement provides for $3000 per work. GO GET YOUR MONEY. www.anthropiccopyrightsettlement.com/claim-form

Jay Bhattacharya is an extraordinarily bad faith actor who has repeatedly lied and whose agenda is harming people 👇

Not a single prominent Republican will respond to the most basic gutter racism coming from the leader of their party.

🧬🐶💀 Two new studies show that, even before farming, dogs were common in ancient cultures, maybe aiding in guard duty, hunting, & rituals. “We call it the Swiss Army Dog, adapting to cultural roles we associate with dogs today.” @lachiescarsbrook.bsky.social Nice piece by @beebrookshire.bsky.social👇🧪

Huge congratulations to James Briscoe @jamesbriscoe.bsky.social for receiving the 2026 BSDB Waddington Medal, recognising an extraordinary career of discovery, mentorship, and leadership in developmental biology. bsdb.org/2026/03/24/2...

musk wants to create an army of musklings and he has a temu david koresh compound where he keeps some of his women and kids

Great. Adding "demons" to the list - gonna squeeze it in between chemtrails and vaccines...